The legal stuff: Privacy Policy and Cookies General Statement The Pentlands Book Festival is committed to protecting your personal information and privacy online with regard to all our services. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us online, via telephone or text, by email, in letters or correspondence. We only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the relevant Act. We do not pass your details to or share information with third parties. How do we use your information? We do not gather information from this website, except the number of visitors to the site, its pages viewed and if you want to contact us. We employ this information in aggregate form, to determine how visitors use specific areas of the website. This helps us to improve our website’s operation and appeal. No personal information about individual users or visitors is gathered in this process. If you use the links on the web site – they, as third parties, may also use cookies for their own purposes. Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website and are stored in the cookie directory of your own computer. No personal information is stored in the Cookie. Our website stores information on numbers of hits on the site, browsing history and tracking Cookies (Google Analytics). This information is anonymous and no individual personal information is stored. Other websites linked from this website are not covered by this privacy policy. No one apart from the Festival’s ‘Web Master’ logs into the site and no one adds comments or interacts with the site other than checking site traffic numbers. Google Analytics are used to monitor site activity in the run up to and during the festival only. Traffic data is collected but not stored past the end of each year’s festival. Deleting Cookies You can delete cookies from your browser at any time. About Cookies gives advice on how you can delete the cookies stored by your browser. Please note that this link takes you off the website.